Product Overview

Campus, a member of the CiscoWorks Family of Products, is a suite of web-based network management tools that enables administrators to obtain various types of graphical views of their network topology and end-user information. Campus Manager is based on a client/server architecture that connects multiple web-based clients to a server on the network.

The CiscoWorks Server supplies tools and services to the Campus Manager applications, including the Asynchronous Networks Interface (ANI) Server. The ANI Server discovers information about network devices and saves it in the ANI database for Campus applications, to access. For more information, see User Guide for Campus Manager, User Guide for CiscoWorks Server, online help for the CiscoWorks Server and online help for the ANI Server.

The Campus Manager applications are:

•Path Analysis—View the actual path that packets take between end nodes/devices on your network.

•User Tracking—Locate and display data about users and hosts in your network.

•Topology Services—Discover, view, and monitor the physical and logical services on your network.

Campus Upgrade Paths

You can upgrade to Campus Manager 3.3 both from Campus Manager 3.1 and Campus Manager 3.2. Campus requires CiscoWorks Common Services 2.2, which is the foundation for the CiscoWorks family of products.

When you install CiscoWorks Common Services 2.2, the previous version of Campus Manager is removed and only its database is preserved. When you install Campus Manager 3.3, certain data from the preserved database is converted to Campus Manager 3.3 format.

•Virtual memory equal to double the amount of memory (RAM). For example, if your system has 512 MB of RAM, you need 1024 MB of virtual memory.

•NTFS file system required for secure operation.

•At least 16 MB in Windows temporary directory (%TEMP%).

System software

•ODBC Driver Manager 3.5.10

•Windows 2000 Professional or Server with Service Pack 3 or higher

•Windows Advanced Server without enabling terminal Services.

Campus Manager supports only the US-English and Japanese versions of the Windows Operating System. It does not support any other language version.Set the default locale to US-English for US-English version and Japanese for Japanese version.

CiscoWorks Common Services 2.2 must be installed before installing Campus. If you installed a version of CiscoWorks Common Services earlier than 2.2, upgrade to 2.2 before installing Campus Manager 3.3. See Installation and Setup Guide for CiscoWorks Common Services 2.2 on Windows.

1If other applications are installed, or the number of devices on your network exceeds 500, the requirements might be greater.

Maximum Recommended Load

The maximum recommended load on servers configured with the minimum server requirements shown in Table 1-1 is 500 Cisco devices and one client at a time.

If other network management applications are installed on your server, additional resources might be required.

Server Recommendations

If your network has more than 500 Cisco devices, the following minimum requirements are recommended:

•500 MHz Multiprocessor

•512 MB of memory (RAM)

•1 GB of virtual memory

•4 GB drive space

Client Requirements

The minimum client system requirements for CiscoWorks Common Services 2.2 and Campus Manager 3.3 are shown in Table 1-2. The maximum recommended load on clients configured with the minimum requirements shown is 1000 Cisco devices.

Note Before you can access Campus from a client system, you must configure the system properly. For information about configuring clients, see Installation and Setup Guide for CiscoWorks Common Services on Windows .